11-letter words containing m, u, s, c
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cram course — an intensive course of study designed to review or teach material needed for a specific purpose or, often, material previously taught but not mastered.
- cream sauce — a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- culmicolous — (of a fungus) growing on grass culms.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- curriculums — Plural form of curriculum.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- custom-make — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- detumescent — characterized by detumescence
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disco music — 70s dance music
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- duces tecum — subpoena duces tecum.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- dwarf sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus copallina, of the cashew family, native to the eastern U.S., having shiny, pinnate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of red, berrylike fruit.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- eco-tourism — Eco-tourism is the business of providing holidays and related services which are not harmful to the environment of the area.
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- ecumenicism — ecumenicalism; ecumenism.
- ecumenicist — a person who advocates Christian ecumenicity.
- emasculated — Simple past tense and past participle of emasculate.
- emasculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emasculate.
- emasculator — One who, or that which, emasculates.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- emunctories — Plural form of emunctory.
- encrustment — an outer layer of crust
- eremacausis — A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or dead animals.
- escarmouche — a skirmish